When my Windows installation (98 SE "lite" using EVWM as a shell) is no longer tolerable I will migrate to Linux or *BSD -- whichever has the best desktop implementation when the time comes. Hopefully by then certain critical applications (EditPlus, Paint Shop Pro) will have adequate AltOS counterparts, or the apps will work well enough on WINE. As can be seen, not having to find and learn new appliations would grease the skids for me changing. Thus the author's hypothesis is 180 degrees backwards for me.